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TakePart May 22, 2008 | 6:48 pm EST
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Darfur Now DVDThe DVD of Darfur Now (priced at $4.99) will be available May 27.

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Read what reviewers had to say about the film:

Darfur Now is informative and effortlessly gripping.
Connie Ogle | Miami Herald

Slick, impassioned, and guardedly upbeat.
Ty Burr | The Boston Globe

By showing the struggles and efforts of about half a dozen people, it puts a human face on the tragedy.
Claudia Puig | USA Today

Check out the social action campaign around the film, or read the rest of the reviews on the jump…

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Giulia Rozzi March 29, 2008 | 5:35 pm EST
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If you’re anything like me, you’re pretty overwhelmed with what seems like an infinite amount of social networking sites. I mean wouldn’t it be much nicer to see all these “friends” rather than clicking through the profiles of all these “friends?” Well in the meantime social networking sites offer a way to stay connected with old friend while also providing opportunity for artists, activists and entrepreneurs to mingle. Social network sites allow users to promote their work, find people to work with, and create communities that share interests, goals, and ideas.

Different social networking sites are geared toward different goals, from sharing good books to sharing plans to save the world to simply just making new friends. Here are just 10 of the hundreds of social networking sites available:

1) MySpace: Probably the most popular of the networking sites, MySpace offers an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos for teenagers and adults internationally. MySpace has greatly helped promote new bands, comedians, and social issues. The site is so popular it’s even become a verb aka “hey totally MySpace me!”

2) Facebook: Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and

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